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ICCD
2006
IEEE
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Pesticide: Using SMT Processors to Improve Performance of Pointer Bug Detection
Pointer bugs associated with dynamically-allocated objects resulting in out-of-bounds memory access are an important class of software bugs. Because such bugs cannot be detected e...
Jin-Yi Wang, Yen-Shiang Shue, T. N. Vijaykumar, Sa...
ICCD
2006
IEEE
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Improving Scalability and Complexity of Dynamic Scheduler through Wakeup-Based Scheduling
This paper presents a new scheduling technique to improve the speed, power, and scalability of a dynamic scheduler. In a high-performance superscalar processor, the instruction sc...
Kuo-Su Hsiao, Chung-Ho Chen
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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SCAFFI: An intrachip FPGA asynchronous interface based on hard macros
Building fully synchronous VLSI circuits is becoming less viable as circuit geometries evolve. However, before the adoption of purely asynchronous strategies in VLSI design, globa...
Julian J. H. Pontes, Rafael Soares, Ewerson Carval...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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Fine grain 3D integration for microarchitecture design through cube packing exploration
Most previous 3D IC research focused on “stacking” traditional 2D silicon layers, so the interconnect reduction is limited to interblock delays. In this paper, we propose tech...
Yongxiang Liu, Yuchun Ma, Eren Kursun, Glenn Reinm...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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Scan chain design for three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs)
Scan chains are widely used to improve the testability of IC designs. In traditional 2D IC designs, various design techniques on the construction of scan chains have been proposed...
Xiaoxia Wu, Paul Falkenstern, Yuan Xie
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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Low-cost run-time diagnosis of hard delay faults in the functional units of a microprocessor
This paper addresses the run-time diagnosis of delay faults in functional units of microprocessors. Despite the popularity of the stuck-at fault model, it is no longer the only re...
Sule Ozev, Daniel J. Sorin, Mahmut Yilmaz
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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Twiddle factor transformation for pipelined FFT processing
This paper presents a novel transformation technique that can derive various fast Fourier transform (FFT) in a unified paradigm. The proposed algorithm is to find a common twiddle...
In-Cheol Park, WonHee Son, Ji-Hoon Kim
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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A low overhead hardware technique for software integrity and confidentiality
Software integrity and confidentiality play a central role in making embedded computer systems resilient to various malicious actions, such as software attacks; probing and tamper...
Austin Rogers, Milena Milenkovic, Aleksandar Milen...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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Voltage drop reduction for on-chip power delivery considering leakage current variations
In this paper, we propose a novel on-chip voltage drop reduction technique for on-chip power delivery networks of VLSI systems in the presence of variational leakage current sourc...
Jeffrey Fan, Ning Mi, Sheldon X.-D. Tan
ICCD
2007
IEEE
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Floating-point division algorithms for an x86 microprocessor with a rectangular multiplier
Floating-point division is an important operation in scientific computing and multimedia applications. This paper presents and compares two division algorithms for an x86 micropro...
Michael J. Schulte, Dimitri Tan, Carl Lemonds